Lynette Fromme

Lynette Fromme (22 October 1948-) was a member of the Manson family and the attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford on 5 September 1975. Fromme pointed an M1911 pistol at Ford in the Capitol Park of Sacramento, California, but the gun did not have a bullet in the cartridge, leading to the failure of the assassination attempt.

Biography
Lynette Fromme was in Santa Monica, California on 22 October 1948, and she was a member of a local dance group as a child, performing at the White House on one occasion. She did drugs while she was in high school, and she dropped out of El Camino Junior College after just two months in school; she became homeless after an argument with her father. In 1967, she befriended Charles Manson in Venice Beach, and she was nicknamed "Squeaky" by Manson ranch owner George Spahn because of the sound that she made when he touched her. In March 1975, she attempted to meet with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page to warn him of "bad energy", and the band's manager agreed to pass a note from Fromme to Page after Fromme said that she could not meet with him the next day (she said that it was "too late"). The manager wound up burning the note before informing Page of its existence.

Attempted assassination of Ford
On 5 September 1975, Fromme decided to assassinate President Gerald Ford at Sacramento's Capitol Park. Fromme dressed in a red robe and headed to the park, where she drew a Colt M1911 pistol, which had four bullets in the magazine, but no cartridge in the chamber. She pointed the gun at Ford, but she was restrained by a Secret Service agent; she repeatedly shouted "It didn't go off!", referring to her gun not firing. Fromme was sentenced to life imprisonment, and she was imprisoned in Dublin, California until she attacked a fellow inmate with a hammer in 1979. She was moved to Alderson in West Virginia, and she escaped from that prison in 1987 when she found out that Manson had testicular cancer. She was rearrested after just two days, and she remained in prison until 14 August 2009. She was released on parole, and she moved to Marcy, New York.